“If people are feeling excluded because of what we call something, that’s not acceptable,” the president of the Entomological Society of America said The Entomological Society of America are working ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / AI-Generated / CC BY-SA 4.0) Scientists have named a new genus of Australian plant bugs Swiftiephylus after ...

Experts removed the common names "gypsy moth" and "gypsy ant" The names are said to contain a derogatory term for Romani people It's part of the effort to replace inappropriate or offensive common ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Scientists are asking for help to rename racist insects, as they seek ...

The Entomological Society of America is changing the offensive names of two bug species, and is launching a project to preempt this issue overall. The Entomological Society of America will exact new ...

The names people use for insects, he learned, can affect both insects and people. So his ears perked when a May 2020 article in The New York Times about Vespa mandarinia — the world’s largest wasp ...

Taylor Swift, the award-winning billionaire singer and songwriter, is getting a new honor: The megastar is the namesake of several recently discovered species of plant-feeding insects from Australia.